Removing a dead Exchange 2007 server from Organization

Mahesh posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:40 AM

Hi,

We have an Exchange 2007 organization and one of the server was removed
without uninstalling Exchange 2007 properly.Pls let us know how we can remove
an dead exchange 2007 Server from console/organization....

Thanks and Regards
Mahesh

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ADSIEDIT to delete the server object.

Jamestechman posted on Friday, June 06, 2008 4:55 AM

ADSIEDIT to delete the server object. Note that this is not supported
as it only deletes the server context and is not a clean graceful
removal as doing an uninstall. There is no KB article to manually
delete as there was for 2000\2003. The proper way would be to recover
the system then uninstall using the \recoverserverswitch.


Recovering an Exchange 2007 Server using the RecoverServer switch
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Recovering-Exchange-2007-Server-RecoverS=
erver-switch.html




How to remove Exchange 2007 from a computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927464


However; if you want to remove the server object from AD delete the
server object.


1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Windows 2000 Support
Tools, point to Tools, and then click ADSI Edit.
2. Expand each of the following items:
Configuration Container
CN=3DConfiguration, DC=3DDomain_Name,DC=3Dcom
CN=3DServices
CN=3DMicrosoft Exchange
CN=3DYour_Organization_Name
CN=3DAdministrative Groups
CN=3DYour_Administrative_Group_Name_Or_Exchange5.5_Site_Name
CN=3DServers

Note In this procedure, Domain_Name is a placeholder for the name of
your domain, Your_Organization_Name is a placeholder for the name of
your organization, and
Your_Administrative_Group_Name_Or_Exchange5.5_Site_Name is a
placeholder for the name of your administrative group or Exchange 5.5
site.
3. Right-click the Exchange 2003 server object, and then click
Delete.
4. Click Yes in every adsiedit dialog box that prompts you to confirm
the deletion.



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